Lower Motor Neuron Pathology Links ALS and FTLD

RESEARCH NEWS 2014-01-09 Research News Researchers continue to be puzzled by the dual manifestation of TDP-43 proteinopathies as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, or even both. The latest study may help them by confirming that many people with FTLD

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Didier Lochmatter

Neuroscience
Bonn, Germany

Jason Goodman

PHILADELPHIA, United States

Carl Horn

Jace Biomedical, Inc.
Madison, United States

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